Installation- Preservation Memoir

When the museum suggested an installation in their historic White Ellery House, I thought why install artwork for one day? But….. I once owned a First Period Gloucester home of the same era and construction (planked-frame) as the Ellery House, a significant connection to the site. The installation provided an incentive to complete a 14-foot piece waiting on my studio wall and the opportunity to show it. 17th century architecture is entwined in my DNA. Rev William Walton, a colonial ancestor, sailed to Boston from Liverpool in 1635, becoming the first minister of Marblehead. Generations of Waltons would have built and dwelled in the very structures that now inspire my artwork. Thus, Preservation Memoir.

INSTALLATION GUEST BOOK
Salvaged pine plank, First Period wrought iron H hinge, antique wallpapers on binder’s board cover; and
INTERACTIVE WORK with wood shavings
“Please take a minute to describe in 5 words or less on a wood shaving, how you feel about The White Ellery House.”